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Alert: funding

Alert: spread

Funding you earn now, next payment 00:00 UTC0.0000%/8h= 0.0% APRnext payment +$0.00 per $10,000 · paid last 24h +0.001%

Price spread now: Bitget against OKX+0.295%7-day average +0.173% · you sell dearer than you buy

Net, funding: paid 7d − costs−$99as in the Funding arb table

Net, price: spread back to 7d avg − costs−$94as in the Price arb table

costs, in and out, $10k−$1061.060% of the position

Long on OKX Short on Bitget

What this pair did over the last

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Funding, last 7 days+0.075%+$7 on $10k

Price spread, last 7 days−0.156%−$16 · spread now +0.295%, 7d avg +0.173%

Together, before fees−0.081%−$8 on $10k · with fees, hour by hour

Funding between these two exchanges is close to zero, so right now this pair is about the price spread alone: Bitget is 0.122% dearer against OKX than usual: you sell high and buy low, +$12 on $10k if it goes back to its 7-day average of +0.173%.

Leg	Exchange	Price	Funding /8h	Each payment	Next in	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
Long	OKX MERL-USDT-SWAP	0.02712	0.0100	pay 0.0050% / 4h	1h 22m	$1.2M	$2.5M	20x
Short	Bitget MERLUSDT	0.02720	0.0100	get 0.0050% / 4h	1h 22m	$1.6M	$289K	25x

Funding history

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Price spread between the two exchanges

Bitget against OKX. Falling: the short leg gains. Rising: it loses.

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Profit calculator

Position, each leg$Hold fordaysFee OKXbpFee BitgetbpOrdersPrice spread, now +0.295%Rate

Funding earned: $0
Price spread: +0.295% → +0.173%: $12.23
Slippage, 4 orders: −$83.95
Fee OKX: 5 bp × 2 orders: −$10
Fee Bitget: 6 bp × 2 orders: −$12
Net: −$93.72
Costs to cover: 1.060%
Break-even: never at this rate

Slippage from OKX: live order book, 4 min ago; Bitget: live order book, 4 min ago.

Cost to enter

taker fee + slippage from the mid, one side; closing costs about the same again

Leg	Half-spread	$10k	$100k	$1M	$5M
Buy OKX live order book, 4 min ago	1.85 bp	20.3 bp −$20	430.8 bp −$4,308	doesn't fit	doesn't fit
Sell Bitget live order book, 4 min ago	5.52 bp	39.2 bp −$39	159.9 bp −$1,599	doesn't fit	doesn't fit

MERL on 16 venues

lowest funding first. Swap a leg: a good short leg pays more funding and is priced higher.

Exchange	Funding /8h	Every	Price	Price vs long leg	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
Coinbase International MERL-PERP-INTX	−0.0128%	1h	0.02708	−0.133%	$26K	$505K	50x	as long as short
Orderly PERP_MERL_USDC	+0.0097%	4h	0.02714	+0.074%	$13K	$2K	10x	as long as short
Hyperliquid MERL	+0.0100%	1h	0.02719	+0.240%	$436K	$134K	3x	as long as short
Aster MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02715	+0.094%	$3K	$427	5x	as long as short
Binance MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02716	+0.147%	$1.8M	$2.1M	50x	as long as short
OKX MERL-USDT-SWAPlong	+0.0100%	4h	0.02712	long leg	$1.2M	$2.5M	20x
Gate MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.02711	−0.037%	$250K	$66K	25x	as long as short
MEXC MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02715	+0.111%	$14.3M	$112K	100x	as long as short
KuCoin MERLUSDTM	+0.0100%	4h	0.02714	+0.074%	$875K	$65K	30x	as long as short
Bitget MERLUSDTshort	+0.0100%	4h	0.02720	+0.295%	$1.6M	$289K	25x

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Exchange	Funding /8h	Every	Price	Price vs long leg	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
Variational Omni MERL	+0.0100%	8h	0.02701	−0.418%	$9K	$163	—	as long as short
SunX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02710	−0.074%	$1K	$999K	20x	as long as short
Deribit MERL_USDC-PERPETUAL	+0.0119%	1h	0.02714	+0.092%	$47K	$63K	10x	as long as short
BloFin MERL-USDT	+0.0158%	4h	0.02717	+0.184%	$120K	$3K	50x	as long as short
BingX MERL-USDT	+0.0650%	4h	0.02713	+0.037%	—	$6.6M	—	as long as short
Bybit MERLUSDT	+0.0718%	8h	0.02704	−0.295%	$1.2M	$470K	25x	as long as short